[A Tennis Elbow, Results of Surgical Treatment by a Modified Boyd McLeod Procedure.]

The author present results of surgeries by the modified Boyd-McLeod procedure performed in the period 1985-1995. He evaluated results of 285 operations and compared them with the results of 54 operations performed by Hohmann procedure in 1982-1984 at the same clinic. He also compares the results with other surgical methods of different authors. However, the comparison is difficult due to different criteria used for the evaluation of the results of operations. Excellent and good results were achieved in 88 % cases by the modified Boyd-McLeod procedure as compared to only 79 % of excellent and good results of Hohmann procedure. In contrast to the original method they do not resect annular ligament along the whole circumference but only its part. Both the Boyd-McLeod surgical procedure and the given modification solves the problem in the most comprehensive way as compared to all other methods published so far. Key words: tennis elbow, surgical treatment, Boyd-McLeod procedure.